“Insecure” star and co-creator Issa Rae has another show in the works at HBO. She and “The Turner House” author Angela Flournoy are working on an untitled ‘90s-set family drama for the network, where Rae has a first-look production deal. Deadline broke the story.
“Bridging those later Reagan Era and early Clinton years,” the drama takes place in Los Angeles and is about married couple Sheryl and Jackson. Sheryl is “an envelope bounds-pushing real estate agent and the latter a conflicted LAPD anti-gang task force recruit.” The show will also focus on Sheryl and Jackson’s teenage kids, Ebony and Les. Flournoy is penning the project.
Rae and Flournoy are among the show’s executive producers.
“I’m so thrilled to be working with Angela,” Rae told Deadline. “I was a huge fan of ‘The Turner House’ and we feel so lucky to bring her beautiful storytelling to HBO.”
A finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, as well as an NAACP Image Award nominee, “The Turner House” follows a Detroit family as they decide what to do with their beloved family home after the matriarch is no longer able to take care of it.
Rae will appear next in the adaptation of Angie Thomas’ YA novel “The Hate U Give,” which is currently filming. The Amandla Stenberg-starrer is the story of a teen girl who testifies in court after witnessing a police shooting.
Season 2 of “Insecure” ended in September. The series’ third season is expected to air sometime in 2018.
